How To Install TWRP 2.8.7.0 On Barnes & Noble Nook HD

By True StaffUpdated on : July 14, 2015

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If you are a fan of TWRP recovery and finding a way to flash or install latest TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery on your Barnes & Noble Nook HD then you are in right place. Today, we at True Android going to share an easy to follow guide on how to install TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery on Barnes & Noble Nook HD. We also added a changelog of TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery for those who interested. A latest custom recovery is required if you willing to flash a custom ROM on your Barnes & Noble Nook HD. Often custom ROM is the only way to upgrade your Android device to latest version of Android OS. There are also many good reason to have custom recovery on your device that we will discuss in later part of this article.

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About TWRP:Team Win Recovery Project, or twrp2 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. We started from the ground up by taking AOSP recovery and loading it with the standard recovery options, then added a lot of our own features. It’s a fully touch driven user interface – no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.

If you don’t know then, stock recovery comes with various limitation including lack of backup and flashing a custom firmware ability. On the other hand custom recovery such as TWRP recovery allow you to do various task including ability to flash custom ROMs and other signed zip, backup and restore whole system, can clear Dalvik cache, can fix permission and many more. The latest TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery also comes with various added features. Here is a list of features that added to latest TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery.

What’s new in 2.8.7.0:

Initial ground work for software drawn keyboard

Fix handling of wiping internal storage on datamedia devices

Allow DataManager to set and read values from the system properties

Fix crash when taking screenshots on arm64 devices

Fix error message after an ORS script completes

Fix crashes / error when creating encrypted backups

Add system read only option

Add resize2fs and GUI option to run resize2fs

Fix crash loop caused by empty lines in AOSP recovery command file

Prevent duplicate page overlays such as multiple lock screens

Warning!

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This tutorial is only for Barnes & Noble Nook HD. Don’t try this guide on any other Android device. Also, we (True Android Team) are not responsible for any damage caused due to the instruction given in this page. Try this at your own risk. However, it is very unlikely that your device will be damaged if you follow all the instructions as it is which are mentioned in procedure.

Pre Requisites:

Though installing TWRP recovery don’t erase internal memory data but we recommend to back up your data first before proceeding to avoid any uncomfortable situation.

How to Install TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery Using TWRP Manager

Open TWRP Manager and provide root permissions. In first opening it will ask you to install BusyBox; install it.

In left side menu you should see an option Install TWRP, tap on it and then tap on device name to choose right device.

On the same screen (Install TWRP) under install section you will notice latest available TWRP version for your device. Tap on it to download and install that version. Tap Yes when a warning screen pop-up with partition details. After completing the TWRP image flashing process, the app will ask you to boot into recovery. Tap on OK button to boot into recovery.

Congrats ! You have successfully installed the TWRP 2.8.7.0 Touch Recovery on Barnes & Noble Nook HD and you are now free to test latest Android 5.1.1 Lollipop based custom ROM as well as old ROM on your Barnes & Noble Nook HD.

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